We are making a bold claim that for local users, Now Tokyo has 10x less latency than other Now regions. To test the claim, we had one of our engineers in Yokohama check the latency using both their office connection, and a VM. The results say it all:

Shown above is a recording of a latency test on HND1. The recording is done
from the perspective of a user in Yokohama (Japan), using
hnd.now.sh.

São Paulo

Brazil

260ms

Brussels

Belgium

230ms

Washington DC

East US

170ms

San Francisco

West US

150ms

Tokyo

Japan

10ms

Smaller is better. The average
latency (in ms) for a connection to São, Brussels, Washington, San, and Tokyo from an office
in Tokyo.

The latency difference is significant, showing a performance boost of well over 10x. To make this experience available to you, we take care of the Geo DNS, load balancing, automatic Let's Encrypt integration, and abstraction over the underlying cloud provider to prevent lock in. Now Tokyo ultimately translates in you being able to offer a vastly improved service to a greater number of customers.